Martin Kerby is an Associate Professor (Curriculum and Pedagogy) at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He has received numerous awards and grants including Queensland ANZAC Centenary Grants (2014 and 2017), and a federal ANZAC Centenary Arts and Culture Fund grant (2015). In 2018, Kerby was awarded a Fellowship at the State Library of Queensland to undertake a project titled 'A War Imagined: Queenslanders and the Great War'. In 2020, he was awarded a place on the Gandel Holocaust Studies Program for Australian Educators in Jerusalem. Dr Kerby is currently co-curating an exhibition titled 'The Kangaroo and the Eagle: Allies in War and Peace 1908-2018' which will be shown at the Pentagon in 2021.